Guard for safety pins



9, 1943. c. B. RHO'QIEN 2,308,826

GUARD FOR SAFETY PINS Filed May 5, 1942 Inventor Patented Jan. 19, 1943 UNITED STATES PATENT QFFHQE of one-half to Marion 0. Rhoten,

N. Mex.

Albuquerque,

Application May 6, 1942, Serial No. 441,945

2 Claims.

My invention relates to safety pins, and more particularly to improvements in guards therefor.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a simple form of inexpensive guard which may be attached easily and quickly to the usual safety pin to prevent cloth through which the pin is inserted from working into the coiled end of the pin or into the clasp and which further functions as a safety device reinforcing the pin and preventing the prong part from being sprung out of the clasp.

Other and subordinate objects are also comprehended by my invention, all of which, together with the precise nature of my improvements, will be readily understood when the succeeding description and claims are read with reference to the drawing accompanying and forming part of this specification.

In said drawing:

Figure 1 is a View in side elevation of a safety pin equipped with my improved guard in its preferred embodiment.

Figure 2 is a view in transverse section taken on the line 22 of Figure 1 and drawn to an enlarged scale, and

Figure 3 is a view of the double strand continuous length of wire from which the guard is formed.

Reference being had to the drawing by numerals, my improved guard has been shown therein as embodied in the usual safety pin of the type including the helical end coil 1, the back part 2 forming an extension of one end of the coil l, and fixed at its other end to the clasp 4, and the prong part 3 extending from the other end of the end coil I and adapted to catch in the keeper 5 of the clasp 4.

The guard of my invention is preferably formed of a continuous length 5 of double strand resilient wire, as shown in Figure 3, wound intermediate end portions 1, 8 thereof in a wide spiral around the back part 2 to form a helical coil 9 between the end coil I and clasp 4 of the pin. One end portion, 1, of the length of wire is extended across the pin adjacent the clasp 4 at substantially a right angle to the back part 2 and formed with a terminal hook l0 functioning as an auxiliary keeper for the prong part 3 contiguous the keeper 5. The strands of the end portion 7 are twisted as shown. The other end portion 8 is extended across the pin from the back part 2 diagonally toward the end coil I and terminates in an eyelet l l substantially larger in diameter than the prong part 3 to permit opening of said prong part and sliding of said eyelet on said part. The strands of the end portion 8 are also twisted as shown.

As will be seen, cloth impaled on the prong part 3 is confined, when the pin is closed, between the end portions 1 and 8 so that it cannot creep along said prong part and become entangled in the clasp keeper 5 or end coil i. The diagonal arrangement of the end portion 8 provides for self adjustment thereof along the prong part 3 under pressure of cloth thereagainst toward the end coil I and for spacing the coil 9 from the end coil i cut of protruding position at that end of the pin. The end parts i and coil 9 serve to reinforce and brace the back part 2 and prong part 3 so that a light weight pin is adapted for heavy duty and the prong part 3 prevented from swinging open, as by being pulled out of the keeper 5.

The foregoing will, it is believed, suffice to impart a clear understanding of my invention together with the advantages to be derived in the practice thereof.

Manifestly, the invention, as described, is susceptible of modification without departing from the inventive concept, and right is herein reserved to such modifications as fall within the scope of the subjoined claims.

What I claim is:

1. A guard for a safety pin of the type em bodying an end coil, a back part, a clasp, and a prong part, said guard comprising a double strand length of resilient wire including a coiled intermediate portion adapted to be sleeved over said back part, a twisted end portion adapted to extend from one end of the coiled portion across the pin adjacent the clasp and terminating in a hook-shaped catch for the prong part, and a second twisted end portion adapted to extend across said pin adjacent said end coil and terminating in an eyelet adapted to be sleeved on said prong part and of greater diameter than said prong part for free sliding along the same and to permit opening of the pin.

2. A guard for a safety pin of the type embodying an end coil, a back part. a clasp, and a prong part. said guard comprising a double strand length of resilient wire including a coiled intermediate portion adapted to be sleeved over said back part, a twisted end portion adapted to extend from one end of the coiled portion across the pin adjacent the clasp and terminating in a hook-shaped catch for the prong part. and a second twisted end portion adapted to extend across said pin adjacent said end coil and terminating in an eyelet adapted to be sleeved on said prong pant and of greater diameter than said prong part for free sliding along the same and to permit opening of the pin, said second end portion extending diagonally from said coiled portion to facilitate flexing thereof toward said end coil under pressure of material impaled on said prong part against the same.

CELIA B. RHOTEN. 

